Look Ma, I'm blogging again!

Well I’m finally back to where I should have been last fall. I’m back in school and finally starting my degree program at USF. Looking like a Fall 2011 graduation if everything goes according to plan and nothing gets in the way (I’m looking at you CF). I’m in a really nice apartment this year on campus; they are the second newest residence buildings on campus. Such a step up from Kosove. These things have a nice sized kitchen with cabinets and a garbage disposal (I’m especially happy with the disposal). My roommates are an awesome set of guys even though they are 20. We all like the same stuff and can relate to a lot of things. They’re just really cool and I hope we all stay in contact beyond this year if we all decide to go live in separate places next fall, I’m not sure if I want to do off-campus or on-campus housing. There are pros and cons with both. Other than that my classes are going great. With MLK Day this past week some of them haven’t really gotten off the ground yet, but looking at the syllabus for the classes I know they will. I’m really liking all my education classes and it just keeps feeling like the right fit for me.

On the health front everything has been going in the right direction. I finally got over the pneumonia and subsequent infections from that ordeal last August in later November. I did have a bit of a cold or something like it earlier this month that was going around my family during Christmas break. I always get these weird mutated things that aren’t really colds, but they are still infections nonetheless. 2 weeks of oral Augmnetin, which I finished last night, took care of that and while I don’t feel like I’ve just come off of IVs I’m feeling better and not sick which is always good.

Good news, I’m finally getting my sinus surgery done. Last time I had a polyp removal was in the early summer of 2000, so yea almost 10 years. If any of you don’t know I’ve developed low platelets due to my liver and enlarged spleen. In 2003 we tried for another sinus surgery, but they pulled at the last minute because of the platelets. Ever since then we’ve tried a few more times, but these surgeons said they didn’t “feel safe” even though my big clotting numbers were at normal levels. I mean sure I don’t want to bleed out on the table, but if my big numbers were good there should be no worry. They were just concerned because of how close the procedure is to the brain. Well maybe try and not hit the brain, don’t they teach that in medical school? Don’t Hit the Brain 101. Ah, but those times are in the past, my docs at Shands have said they feel comfortable with the risk and we’re going ahead with it. Hopefully with the polyps and inflamed tissue gone my secretions will be severely reduced so no more infectious post-nasal drip getting into my lungs and bringing more infection there. If it does what it should maybe I’ll feel the benefits of IVs longer instead of having a productive green cough 3 weeks after I’m done, if it doesn’t help maybe that will be another roadsign in the status of my disease. I’m hoping for the prior, but I’m aware of the existence of the latter.

Anyway that's it for now

First Post and a Discharge

So, this is my first blog post ever, I feel so 21st century and Web 2.0.

Thursday I was discharged from Shands at the University of Florida. I'm at home in Sarasota and soon I will see an end to my crazy Health Odyssey of nearly 2 months.

In 2 weeks I have an appointment with my CF doctors and I'm hoping that my PFT numbers will be back to their baseline which has me in the upper 60s for lung function. Though I'm prepared if they have infact dipped and even after a month of IVs these could be my new baseline numbers. I mean CF is a disease that destroys the lungs so it should be of no surprise that I see a continued downward trend in my numbers, though treatment is the only thing that slows it down and I will try my damndest to keep that trend as slow as possible. I'm also hoping that I get cleared again for sinus surgery and I can finally, finally after 6 years of waiting, have it done around the holidays.

Other than that I am planning on going up to USF later this coming week to get my courses planned out again for my education major. The pneumonia caused me to miss fall semeser and in doing so caused my roadmap to get messed up. I had specific courses planned for every semester until spring '11 whem I would graduate. Now I have to move around everything so I can take the right courses during the right semesters when they are offered. School may prove to be a bit hard this spring mainly because as of now I can't pick buildings for housing in spring. I may have to end up taking courses at Sarasota, or splitting my time between here and Tampa if I can do one day a week courses up there. It'll be a challenge, but I WILL make it work because I WANT it to work.

In other news I have begun to slowly brainstorm Vocare 12 for which I will be the rector of here in Southwest Florida. I need to step it up though because the weekend is in February this time and even though it seems like a far off time, its really not and it doesn't help that the holiday season will be starting up soon so everything will be going a million miles per hour.

Anyway, that's it for now.